The Lydian Center for Innovative Medicine :: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Classical homeopathy is based on the idea that your Vital Force (your body’s healing energy) “knows” or holds the information about how to be healthy, but it gets thrown out of whack by different physical or emotional traumas. The well-chosen homeopathic remedy reminds the Vital Force of what it already knows. It’s like calling in the piano tuner when your piano is out of tune, instead of calling a carpenter. The remedy creates a resonance that your Vital Force responds to.

An enormous amount of information is stored on the tiny homeopathic pellet, analogous to a computer chip. The pellets taste sweet so they are easy to take or to give to children.

The homeopathic process begins with a questionnaire covering your condition as well as you as a person. Then an intake interview, lasting about two hours, allows the homeopath to learn about you in greater depth and to find a homeopathic remedy customized for you.

Follows average once a month for three to twelve months depending on your condition. You will not need the remedy for the rest of your life — in fact once it has done its job, you will stop taking it.

Begabati Lennihan uses an unusual form of classical homeopathy in which you fine-tune your dally dosage so that you get steady progress without having to “get worse before you get better”, as many people believe is part of homeopathy.

How Is Begabati's Practice Different?

If you have already seen a homeopath, or heard about the process from someone who has, you might appreciate the ways in which Begabati's practice is different:

Most homeopaths start with a single dose of a high-potency (strong) remedy in order to induce an aggravation (a temporary worsening of symptoms which makes it clear to the homeopath that the remedy is correct and is working). Begabati starts with a low potency (mild) dose of the remedy and gradually increases it in order to avoid an aggravation. Instead, she establishes benchmarks at the first appointment which will help you as well as her to notice whether the remedy is working.

Many homeopaths refuse to tell their clients the name of the remedy they are taking; Begabati finds that telling her clients about their remedy helps them to feel more involved in the process.

Most homeopaths ask their patients to avoid coffee, mint, and possibly other factors such as dental work, electric blankets, and a long list of foods and bodycare products with aromatic oils. Begabati does not find these avoidances necessary with her system of daily dosing of the remedy.

Hypersensitives (people who are extremely sensitive to environmental influences) are ideal candidates for homeopathy – except that they tend to suffer more than anyone else from the high potencies used by most homeopaths. Begabati adjusts the strength of the remedy to the sensitivity of her clients, using extremely gentle potencies for hypersensitives, so that even people who may have suffered from previous homeopathic treatment are often able to benefit from homeopathy with Begabati.

Many homeopaths ask their clients to stop taking vitamins and herbs, and to stop other modalities they may be using like acupuncture or chiropractic. Begabati encourages her clients to continue doing anything which they feel is helping, except not to start anything new at the same time as the remedy in order to assess the remedy clearly. In addition, based on more than fifteen years of running a health food store, she is very knowledgeable about supplements and other modalities which she recommends when she realizes that homeopathy cannot do everything for a client.

Finally, Begabati supports her clients in whatever spiritual practice or personal growth work they are involved in, believing – as her spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy would often say – that there are many paths to enlightenment. She often frames her discussion of her clients' remedies in the larger picture of how homeopathy can support their life lessons and fulfilling their purpose on earth.

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